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[ODdOnLifeItself]

Am currently traveling through Austria and Italy. When I tried to connect from Austria (I assume due to the IP-domain I was routed through), it told me I was permanently banned from the site and gave me the option of writing the system administrator.

We're now in Italy and everything is working fine. (ie. I'm connecting with a very different IP address)

If you're in Feld am See in Austria, your mileage may vary.

[Jim Eshelman]

James, this seems to be a phone carrier issue MOSTLY (and how the forum is set to respond to that). People have reported it periodically over the years and, so far, always from a phone.

I switched phone carrier recently and, all of a sudden, on several spots on the drive to work, I get the same thing. As you move about, your phone or other portable device picks up new IP addresses, many of which have been used by spammers and gotten reported to spam-blocking agencies. I use a couple of those to filter the site (and whether somebody is on the list is controlled by the agency, not me).

I found a trick that, so far, always works for me: You want to flip to a different IP address to get one that isn't blocked. On a phone, the steps are to turn off mobile data (disconnecting the phone from the carrier) for, say, ten seconds, then turn mobile data on again. You'll have a fresh IP that (odds are) won't be on the spam list.

Enjoy Italy!

[ODdOnLifeItself]

Thanks for the background info. In this instance, I was using a fixed connection (though of course getting a relatively randomized IP address from the local provider's DHCP server, when my "new device" attempted to connect).

In the same circumstance in the future, I'd (on a computer) use Windows to give up the old and get a new IP-Address.

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

Which normally would do the same as disconnecting the mobile briefly.

Again, thanks for the clarification.

I have to admit, perhaps it was my (unknown then!) history with my Eris-Sun square (0° 14') in my natal, coupled with the Eris-Sun opposition (1°) from my conception chart, that first had me asking myself, "did I, in fact, do something to get banned?"